Quotes About Carnivals

#1. Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Aldous Huxley

#2. The time to be political is not when you have parties and carnivals, it's kind of a show, the election. It affects something but not that much. And focusing all the attention on it is I think a mistake.

Noam Chomsky

#3. I happen to love carnivals.

J.R. Richardson

#4. If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon

#5. Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

Lea Thompson

#8. I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

Caity Lotz

#9. The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Here in these circuses and carnivals we all love each other with our oddities and queernesses.

Rawi Hage

#11. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#12. The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

George Meredith

#13. Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban

#14. She likes the calm before the day begins, this sensation that everyone she loves is sleeping nearby. It's so much easier to love them when they're asleep, after all. When

Nick Alexander

#15. Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.

David Mamet

#16. When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.

Katherine Dunn

#17. He'd taken the boys to the Hallenstadion many times to see the ZSC Lions play.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#18. There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Douglas Hurd

#19. Zac Efron is like a brother who's just goofy and crazy. He plays a lot of practical jokes.

Ashley Tisdale

#20. I don't eat meat, I am not a carnival.

Melanie

#21. I'm not a foodie; I'm an eatie. I don't have anything against foodies. I just don't have the time or the interest to do that much research.

Jim Gaffigan

#22. Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

Coco Chanel

#23. It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time.

Michael Lewis

#24. I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#25. She decided to watch the leaves on the tree across the way. How many would fall off in such a strong wind? ... She now knew why people made such a fuss about weddings. It was to keep the bride's mind occupied, lest she fall into strange mental chasms.

Julia Quinn

#26. By playing these games about "arbitrary" gender roles, we have not succeeded in outlawing masculinity, but we have robbed it of much of its vocabulary. There are not very many acceptable ways to speak "masculine" anymore. We are all in denial, and the results are not pretty.

Douglas Wilson

#27. Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Vernon Howard

#28. Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

Matthea Harvey

#29. Crewing and being on film sets is kind of like being in the carnival, with carnie folks.

Ben Mendelsohn